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Terry
Asked: 2009-09-01 12:12:26 +0800 CST

Copying files with permissions

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We have a new Windows 2008 server and want to transfer over our old files. Tried using Robocopy with /E /SEC /COPYALL, but did not do anything, RichCopy copies the files between the computers but does not maintain the permissions. Any ideas?

windows-server-2008 windows-server-2003 robocopy copying

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  1. Best Answer
    • Maybe the user that run the command don't have permission on the destination server to create the files with the permissions needed.
    • Make sure that the root directory at the destination is not configure to inherit its permission to new files.
    • Maybe there are permissions/ownership in the source for local users. So they don't exist on the destination directory.

    Run the copy from the destination.

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  2. Maybe just the wrong order in your command line? Here's a working example from a batch file:

     robocopy C:\backup.0 C:\backup.1 /COPYALL /E
    • /COPYALL preserves attributes, security, timestamps
    • /E is a recursive copy

    Edit: Wikipedia has some examples and explanations of switches available here (probably where my co-worker sourced his batch file examples from too).

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  3. The answer is: We did the RoboCopy from the old server.. yet it was still too slow. Permissions had something to do with it despite the fact that we were logging in with Domain Administrator. In the end we will probably use backup exec for this massive transition. Thanks all.

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